Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10
TEXAS In TYPE.
Clippings from Stare Exchanges OF Matter,
of Interest.

Peaches and plums are plentiful il
Cleburne.
( Royse City shipped fifteen carloads Of
cattle on last Friday.
The drilling for an ar,esian well at Big
Springs commenced to-day,
Pipe ls ing by the Tyler Water Com
pany commenced this week.
The crop prospects in Cooke county
are said to be the finest in five years.
Prairie dogs are doing great damage
TO growing crops in Hardemsn county.
One firm IN Blanco shipped last Week
to San Antonio IA, 900 pounds of wool
Hardeman county has had an abun-
! dance of rain, and the crops are flourish
ing.
In Lee county there has been plenty Of
rain. The crops are hle and grass excel
lent
New wheat is being received at the
Gainesville mills. II brings - cents g
busnel.
A steel roller Touring mill will De sdd-
ed 20 the industries of Vernon before
next harvest.
A son OF Mr.. Boyle of Kendall county
was killed on Mondsy by falling into
we'll his father was cleaning.
The Methodisls at Seymour have las:
/ finished ard dedicated 4 new church and
are building parsonage.
Vernon is constantly gaining new trade
I territory, the latest acquisition in that
| line beiqg Knox and King counties.
The building boom goes on st Gaines
vile. There are thirty-dye new brick
I business houses in course of erection
The acreage of small grain is lot SO
/ larg5 in Rockwell county ss last year on.
the yield will exceed the expectation Of
all.
/ Wheat harvesting has commenced d
Erath county. The prospect OF corn ant
cotton crops was never better in than
section.
Miss Alice COsgrove, living four miles
south of AIvaradO, was severely Injured
by horse she was assisting her father to
corral.
Commerce is pushing ahesd with two
lumber yards, telegraph, telephone and
express offices, one railroad and two more
in prospect.
There mas been proposition made to
the citizens of Granbury 20 put in opera
ton an ice factory there within the next
thirty days
Many of the farmers in Johnson county
are threshing oats and they ssy that the
yield is much better than was anticipated
two months ago.
In Ia Sale county the rains have been
sufficient 20 guarantee ample grass al
summer and the water supply viii last
equally SIS long.
Farmers in Milan county have geuer-
oil 1oiI Ab.g 1
cotton for the first time. The crop pros
poet is very lettering.
On account of the late rains in Hun.
county cotton is very grassy, and cotton
hOeTs are in demand at 81 90 day and
board. Corn looks fine.
Corn ABOUT CotuIa is five feet high
even, and of good color. With seaso1-
a5le rain the crop is estimated from
thirty to fifty bushels to the acre.
The hail several days ago did much i'll
jury st Mason, destroying fruit Gud veg
etabIes, inIurlng nearly all the roofs ana
breaking great deal of window glass.
Staphenville intends to have water aad
esswOrks, and an ice factory So soon as
the building of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande Railway 10 that point Is assured
In Blanco county the rains are Undue
ing the rapid growth of all vegetation.
The crops are yourg, but with fair SEES
socs the YIELD, it is believed, will he
good.
The new bridge across the Rio Grauce
at Eagle Pass is progressing. Rock hss
been quarried, hauled under the hill ard
the foundations for the piers have been
commenced.
There has been considerable rain in
San Saba. The farmers are cheerful but
say another rain is needed TO assure the
crop. The wool clip is good and is being
brought in rapidly.
Pearsall and vicinity have been visited
by good rains, and the crop prospect I'M
proved thereby. The pecan crop, it is
thought, will be immense, and the out
look for game of all kinds, excellent.
Opinions as to the aversse yield OF
wheat and oats in Bell county range from
seven to fifteen bushels per acre. Oats
were much injured by the drOuth but
corn and cotton promise immense crops
Mrs. S. H. Neal of Friotown has been
placed in jail on a charge of insanity
The supposed cause of her arrangement is
attributed to her infant child's death
about two or three weeks ago.
There is q quarry at Presidio, the rock
being sandstone specially adapted for
the manufacture of the porous water jar
of the Mexican. The owner of the quar-
~ is busy filing orders for these Jars and
The material is said 20 De in
Mason claims to be the banner stock
county Of Texas, having shipped this year
over 10000 head of high priced cattle.
The production of wheat is said TO be
from twelve 10 twenty bushels per acre,
corn from twenty to forty, with good
crops of oats and cotton.
Wichita Herald: There is every pros
pect before Us for q good healthy, sub
5tantisl boom this fall. The wheat crop
is good, the oats in many places fair, the
corn crop is as fine as could be asked, the
cotton promises well, the wool clipping
mas been an extraordinarily good one AMI
cattle are fat and fine.
Gainesville is in needy condition.
Her citizens modestly demand park, q
an elevator, an ice factory, an
artesian weB,sesa public fountain,
that . railse@d to Dallas, an
other large H6ur nltii, that railtc%, to the
southwest, EversE n ore artesisA Wells, q
cotton seed pA and 8 cottoA ActoEy.
Aaroe to MOthsrsnK
. Mrs F1inslrtafs Sootbino STS<e$zsbould